Che Guevara Quotes

this battle is going to decide the fate of all America and it is preferable to die on the field of honour than at the hands of our executioners.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Freedom has never been free.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty has its roots in blood.

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done. [He was executed.]

The road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

The willing sacrifice of the innocent is the most powerful answer to insolent tyranny that has yet been conceived by God or man.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.